A Home based call center is a call center company that employs agents who provide call center services at the comfort of their home. This means that the hired customer agents or personnel need not come to the office to work but stays at home and perform their duties and functions right at their home. […]
As its name implies, a home-based call center is call center in which employees/ agents are working at the convenience of their homes. Home-based call centers are actually virtual call centers in which agents, customer representatives, marketing sales agents or tutors work at their homes instead of going to a centralized office to provide their […]
Backpay pertains to the past salaries and benefits to which an employee is entitled because the employee had actually worked for it or has rendered service to the company. The benefits many include bonuses, increments and overtime that an employee has already earned. AWOL (absence without leave) employees or employees who got absent without proper […]
In Philippines, the call centers or call centre in fact started as a plain provider of email response and managing services. As time pass by, the call center industry comprises 80% of the outsourcing industry in the Philippines. Among the client of the call center is the United States market, which occupies the 80% services […]
In deciding to outsource a work, businesses have a choice of getting the services of a home-based agent or dedicated agents. Home agents are outsourcing providers or individuals work from their homes or their won private work space. Dedicated agents. Dedicated agents are outsourcing providers employed by a BPO vendor or company that provides specialized […]
The term “regular” is a classification of employment according to one’s tenure often contrasted against casual employee. According to the Labor Code of the Philippines, an employee is regular if one is has rendered at least one year of service, whether continuous or broken. An employee is also considered regular even if evinced only by […]
Years ago, our parents and grandparents found stable jobs, worked continuously for 20 or so years, and retired at the ripe old age of 60. Employees only needed to work diligently and they were assured of tenure. Meanwhile, employers didn’t have to worry too much about employee turnover because most of their people were very […]
Evolving from the outsourcing phenomenon, Legal Process Outsourcing (or LPO) is the outsourcing of legal support services usually by a law firm. The activities practically involved all legal processes except those works that require personal presence or appearances in the court. The concept of Legal Process Outsourcing is a progression if the principle of labor […]
Over the last two decades, the Philippines had become a popular destination for business process outsourcing chief of them, the contact center industry. The BPO industry is considered as the fastest growing industry in the Philippines that generate revenues of over 10 billion US dollars. The greater part of this amount is attributed to call […]
Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is the government agency that generally regulates all issues, matters and policies related to labor and employment. When filing a complaint relating to labor, there is a particular agency under DOLE that especially handles complaints. This is the National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC), a quasi-judicial agency mandated to arbitrate […]
When Philippine holidays are on the midst like Christmas, New Year, the Holy Week and All Saint’s Day, most Filipino workers are excited. The same is true among call center agents because it is a time of vacations with their loved ones, going home in the provinces, family reunions and get-togethers with friends. While most […]
Hazard pay is a compensation given to employees whose work is hazardous or dangerous in nature or report for work in stations or areas where conditions are dangerous such if there is war or active hostilities. In the Philippines, hazard pay is provided by law to military and police officers (for their vulnerability to physical […]
Call center home sourcing refers to outsourcing a call center to an independent home-based call center agent or contractor. Home sourced agents may also be referred as virtual assistants and are usually employed by small scale businesses. They are often directly outsourced by a company. Because the concept integrates the concept of outsourcing and telecommuting, […]
Pilipinas Teleserv is a contact center founded in the advent on the millennium that offers customer management services in multiple formats including voice, email, social networks, forums and even face to face contact. As one of the pioneers in the Philippine based contact center services, Pilipinas Teleserv call center is also a founding member of […]
General laws relating to labor is basically contained on the Philippine labor code. There are particular provisions that generally refer to labor which applies to the call center industry such as employment of night workers, mandatory deductions and health guidelines, rights of women, provisions on overtime work and holidays, night work schedules, penalties or erring […]
Philippines is the second largest call center business capital in the world today, the BPO companies knows that hiring call center agents is as easy as 123. They expect that hiring Filipinos as their agent means giving them salary not on the range of salary bracket. For instance in the provinces, many call center agent […]
The oldest call centers in the Philippines apparently are the local call centers of major business companies that provided service to local customers such as call center of credit card institutions (BPI, Citibank), utility companies like Meralco as well as telecommunications companies like PLDT, Smart and Globe. However over the last decade, the Philippines had […]
B&M Global Services or Baker & McKenzie Global Services is a global law firm the provides legal consultancy services amidst the interconnected global economies of nations in the 21st century. Created in 1949, the company provides legal advise to multinational corporations across the world on issues regarding the integrated world market. B&M Global Services is […]
A call center is a centralized office used delivery customer service through the phone such as receiving and responding to inquiries, collection of payments, providing tech support and other services which can be facilitated verbally through remote communications. Thus, call centers have longed existed in the Philippines however primarily providing services to the local market. […]
Among IBM call center business solutions included business analytics and optimization, intelligence in business, process management, cloud computing and IT connectivity and integration. In terms of business management, IBM Global Philippines provides content, data, cost, disaster, distribution management as well as energy efficiency and Enterprise application integration. With the delivery of its IT solutions, IBM […]